Thinking has an understructure and underpinnings.
AGNES DENESWe use up words as we use up images. We use up everything, and that’s good, because it makes us grow.
More Agnes Denes Quotes
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Society likes to file you away, put you in this or that category. And I never fit any category.
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I study what I work with. I studied all these different fields of science that I needed for my work.
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I’m mostly self-taught. I didn’t learn much in school.
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I hate to put tags on things, because tags change, and they change with the requirements made on them.
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Maybe that’s why I was left out of a lot of things, or why my work was not really understood, because there was no precedent for it.
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There are an infinite number of patterns, some of which are known; those still unknown hold the key to unresolved enigmas and paradoxes.
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I didn’t get involved in it; I started what then became a movement.
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When I’m gone, you’ll be sitting in a cafe and say, “Do you remember Agnes?”
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Public art existed all along, but ecological art just naturally grew out of my thinking and writings in that area for years.
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People don’t hurt what they love.
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If I could relive my life, what I would do is work with scientists. But not one scientist, because they’re locked into their little specializations.
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There’s no precedent for women philosophers and there’s no precedence for most of the things I did.
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Most wonderful things are unconscious.
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One thing that’s paramount in my life is that I am alone. I’m a loner. And yet I have many friends and I don’t feel lonely.
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I studied how to mine a landfill and what to plant in it. It’s fascinating because you learn a new field each time.
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